A man whose lonely life at the edge of the sea has become as predictable as the tide witnesses a murder that sends him on an existential journey the likes of which he could never have anticipated in director Béla Tarr's philosophical drama. Maloin had reached a point in life where he was content to embrace loneliness while turning a blind eye to the inevitable decay that surrounded him. Upon bearing witness to a shocking murder, however, the man who once lived a life of quiet solitude is forced to wrestle with such profound issues as punishment, mortality, and the sin of complicity in a crime he didn't even commit. Now, despite Maloin's simple wish to be free and happy, he must journey deep within his inner-self to confront emotions that he never once fathomed in his long yet uneventful existence. ~AllMovie
1 min 42 sec
Views
19,112
Posted On
May 10, 2009
Béla Tarr
Writer
Georges Simenon
Studio
IFC Films
Release
September 30, 2007
Tilda Swinton
Miroslav Krobot
Janos Derzsi
Istvan Lenart
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